Proverbs 28:22

New International Reader's Version

Those who won’t share what they have want to get rich. They don’t know they are going to be poor.

Cross References

Genesis 19:17

As soon as the angels had brought them out, one of them spoke. He said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look back! Don’t stop anywhere in the valley! Run to the mountains! If you don’t, you will be swept away!”

Proverbs 21:5

The plans of people who work hard succeed. You can be just as sure that those in a hurry will become poor.

Proverbs 22:16

You might treat poor people badly or give gifts to rich people. Trying to get rich in these ways will instead make you poor.

Proverbs 23:6

Don’t eat the food of anyone who doesn’t want to share it. Don’t long for his fancy food.

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful person will be richly blessed. But anyone who wants to get rich will be punished.

Matthew 20:15

Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Do you feel cheated because I gave so freely to the others?’

Mark 7:22

Adultery, greed, hate and cheating come from a person’s heart too. So do desires that are not pure, and wanting what belongs to others. And so do telling lies about others and being proud and being foolish.

1 Timothy 6:9

People who want to get rich are tempted. They fall into a trap. They are tripped up by wanting many foolish and harmful things. Those who live like that are dragged down by what they do. They are destroyed and die.